Identifying messages in a thread (was: Please keep the full address)

[castironpi at gmail.com]

On Mar 6, 10:47 am, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da... at druid.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:58:06 -0800 (PST)
>
> Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I don't want to have to tag every thread.  I just want to *plonk*
> > > certain posters.
>
> > > Anyway, I'll live with Google's failings I guess.
>
> > Sounds like you need better filtering.
>
> > A decent news filter should be able not only kill a poster, but also
> > all followups to that poster recursively.
>
> Actually, I am reading this as a mailing list and since I run Unix and
> procmail I am sure that I could set something up if it really starts to
> be annoying.  So far the simple filters deal with all but a smattering
> of problem postings so I don't need to expend the time.

The Google Groups reader doesn't always let you see new replies to
really old messages, something they should change (this means you).
But there is an 'active old threads', but it doesn't catch every one.
I want to read those plonk.